Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-13
a FAMILY QUARREL.
s Houston Han Killed by His Brother in
Lsw-TrouSio Between Man end VVife.

4 Houston lIan Killed by His Brother in
Lsw-TrCuSio Between Man end VVife.
Special to the Gazette.
HOUSTON, TEX Aug. l2.-This after
noon about O'Clock Police Clerk James
Fitzgerald received q telephone message
that man named MalcCmin Lindsey YVES
creating disturbance at the residence OF
Mr.. Ben A R:esner and requesting that
an officer be sent over. Mr.. Fitzgerald
tried 10 communicate with the sheriff's
Clli-e by telephone, but failing to get 81
answer he sent out after an officer, but
within fifteen minutes sitter :hhis word
came that Rjesner hai fatally shot Lind
say. TIE news of the affair spread over
the city and every street car was crowded
with people gong to the scene of the
tragedy, which is situated in the Fourth
ward on Union street, be-
tween White and Henderson.
IL order to understand fully the circum-
stances and the causes Leading 10 this
fatal sffsay, it will be necessary 10 90
back end relate the domestic iufeIiciUy
which has existed in the house of Line
say. Riesn6r and Lindsay married sis
ters. Lindsay has never lived pe&caDly
with MS wife, and for some time they lived
apart, but g short while Ggo taey became
Teconciled and undertook to dwell again
together as mAD and wife. How We'll they
succeeded is amply illustrated by tle &C
tions Of the husband yesterday and the
day before. On Thursday Mrs. Mary
Lindsay, his wife, made complaint before
Justice RsiIey that her husband
had made serious threats against
her life, and affidavit vas
also made against him fOr
displaying q pistol. On the evening of
the same day Lindsay forcibly took his
ten-months-old child from the arms of his
wife and, armed with a doubIe-barrel
shotgun, aVowed his intention OF killing
anyone who troubled him. He took the
child over to the Fifth ward, where after
COnCeeling it he put up ct the Fifth Ward
hotel. Immediately application was made
0y the mother to Judge Masterson of the
District court for writ OF habeas corpus
TO recover the child. The Judge granted
the writ, and Sheriff Ellis went over to
the Fifth ward to recover it, having heard
that Lindsay was there. Upon arriving
st the Fifth Ward hotel Lindsay was
found, but lie did rot have the
Child with him, and he refused
to tel! the Sheriff where ne had left i,
but made use of good many threats to
the effect that he would shoot any body
who touched the child. In the meantime
the sheriff hearing that warrant was in
the hands OF Officer BurIey for the arrest
Of Lindsay for threatening to take the
life of his wife sent over, got the warrant
and arrested him. Lindsay at once gave
bond in the sum of scotland was released.
Later on the friends of Lindsay pursuaded
him to return the Child to the mother as
the court had ordered it and it would be
better for him to obey the writ. The
child was returned to the mother about
10 O'Clock Thursday night at the residence
Of Mrs. Riesner, as here Mrs. Lindsay
had gone the day before, after her life
had been threatened. Thus matters
stood this afternoon ct s.
few minutes before ) O'Clock when
Lindsay approached the house through
the back yard and brought the matter TO
a fatal elimination. Exactly what was
ssid and done when Lindsay mounted the
porch of Mr., Rle5ner's residence is not
known, ana under the advice Of counsel
Mr.. Riesner declined to be interviewed
II is known, however, that Lindsay st
tempted TO enter the house forcibly, and
Lau u sCulIS Win NIX hlSEueIJ lGdIIuS
his shirt nearly of Of him and breaking
the iron iestenings CT the blinds thst
opened into the house from the porch.
Mr.. Riesner has been sick for sew
ersl days, and was in bed with fever when
Lindsay came to his house, and being IN
able to grspple with his sssailant, he must
have reached for his gun. At suy rate, q
lady from neighbOring window ssw MIR.
Reisner when he fired the shot that took
effect. He was standing with one foot
on the step OF the back piazza where the
scutfle had occurred, and Lindsay was
twenty PAGES off near the rear fence
which enCloses the lot. Lindsay reeIed
and fell at the explosion, the small of his
back being perforated with load of
buCkshot. Fourteen buckshot took
effect in the small Of his back.
His right hand was badly
wounded and one buckshot entered his
right lung. Dr.. James Boyles was i'm
mediately summoned and did what he
could for the wounded man. The wounds
he pronounced fatal, but he relieved the
man of suffering by administering OPT
etes. Crowds soon gathered around the
wounded man as he lay where ne fell,
and among those WHO were earliest to ar
rive there was Justice Railey.
To Justice Railey he made the follow
| ing statement with reference to what oc
Cured just before he Was shot: l went
to the house through the back way to see
my wife and they would not let
me in. Mr.. Riesner threw q bottle
st me and SO l ran l was shot" a pistol